Welcome to the Senior Room Page. Fáilte romhat!
SCI-FEST WINNERS 2016
We were so thrilled to hear that our science projects won at Scifest. Our school was awarded the Best Overall Primary School at Scifest. Well to Keisha, Éabha, Katie, Eoin and Melanie. Fantastic achievements and we are so proud of you. To read more about it go to our Scifest page by clicking here.
Crazy Characters made from clay
Our Crazy Characters have arrived. We hope you enjoy looking at them as much as we enjoyed making them. We moulded them in clay, painted them and gave them a shiny varnish.
We were inspired by our Religion lesson to create these unique characters. We used clay to mould them into the character we wanted them to be. We let them dry and then painted and varnished them. We hope you like our Crazy Characters.
Confirmation Party
A big thank you to 5th class and Ms Flanagan who organised a surprise party for our Confirmation pupils last Friday. They made home made pizzas bases and covered them with delicious toppings along with bringing in tempting treats for afterwards. The room was decorated really well with a handmade banner sending best wishes to the pupils. We hope everyone enjoyed the party.
Congratulations to those who made their Confirmation recently.
The 20th of April 2016, was our Confirmation day. It was held in Whitehall Church. There were six schools with Confirmation candidates. They were Cloontuskert, Ballagh, Ballyleague, Whitehall, Ballyfeeney and Clonfour. There were ten candidates from our school, Orla Cox, Bláithín McElgunn, Niamh Flynn, Keisha Carty, Conor Gannon, Lee Kilcoyne, Cian Walton, Daniel Carberry, Rachael Donlon and Kevin McDonagh. The priests present were our local parish priest Fr. John, Whitehall's parish priest Fr. Yarik and Fr. Ray who were led by our bishop, Kevin Doran. It was a lovely ceremony with a brilliant homily all about caring for the environment. He told us about how we should look after the Earth for the people that will come after us. We were blessed with the weather ....... and the Holy Spirit !!!
Written by Orla Cox and Bláithín McElgunn.
Written by Orla Cox and Bláithín McElgunn.
Congratulations to Éabha
We were delighted when it was announced that one of our own class pupils was short listed for the Primary School Poetry Prize as part of the Strokestown Poetry Festival. Eabha's poem the snow was chosen along with, 4th class pupil Eimhin Farrell's poem "The Winning Goal". Both of these pupils have been invited to attend the prize giving ceremony in the Percy French Hotel on Fri 29th April at 6:30pm. All are welcome to attend and support. All the pupils of the Senior Room wish Éabha the best of luck. Below is Éabha's poem:
The Snow
It was a chilly night,
The frost had settled.
It covered even,
Those long and spiky nettles!
It was cold,
Freezing, freezing cold.
And the night's icy fangs,
Chilled the air in its hold!
And then the snow began to fall,
Gently, touched the ground.
Snowflakes came down from the sky,
Swirling, swirling round!
And then the little ones woke up,
Saw the snow and beamed.
They ran outside and their parents heard,
Their laughter and their squeals!
by Éabha Kenny
It was a chilly night,
The frost had settled.
It covered even,
Those long and spiky nettles!
It was cold,
Freezing, freezing cold.
And the night's icy fangs,
Chilled the air in its hold!
And then the snow began to fall,
Gently, touched the ground.
Snowflakes came down from the sky,
Swirling, swirling round!
And then the little ones woke up,
Saw the snow and beamed.
They ran outside and their parents heard,
Their laughter and their squeals!
by Éabha Kenny
BAKING in the Senior Room!
On Wednesday 17th of February the children in the Senior Room got to bake some nice treats with Ms Flanagan as a reward for the whole class having at least two pieces of vegetables in their lunch boxes. They baked Chewy Gooey Flapjacks and delicious Chocolate Chip cookies to take home with them. The recipes were very simple and easy to follow, you can download them below by clicking the link.
| Download our recipes here! |
SCIENCE WEEK
Congratulations to 5th & 6th
WINNING PRIMARY SCHOOL at SCIFEST,
First Primary School to be awarded this title.
WINNING PRIMARY SCHOOL at SCIFEST,
First Primary School to be awarded this title.
To read more click here to go to our dedicated SCIFEST page.
MATHS WEEK
We had great fun during Maths Week. We created a maths trail for the middle classes. We had to come up with the questions and answers based on maths all around our school. This was great fun.
We also took part in the online maths games on Mangahigh. Some of these were challenging but we really enjoyed them.
We also took part in the online maths games on Mangahigh. Some of these were challenging but we really enjoyed them.
READ ABOUT CLOONTUSKERT'S VERY OWN PLANT FOOD.
It's not just the pupils who have been working hard
in Cloontuskert NS but our resident worms too!
We were delighted to see that our resident worms have not just been greedily eating our scraps of fruit every day but they have been busy producing worm tea or liquid plant food. Read more by clicking here.
MATHS: CONSTRUCTING ANGLES
We can construct triangles.
Autumn Colours Dathanna an Fhómhair
Rugby World Cup Countries in the Rugby World Cup
Hi. My name is Jack. I am in 5th class. My teacher’s name is Ms Gallagher. I am in the Senior Room. My favourite subjects are SESE and maths. There are six people in 5th class. We are doing a project on the Rugby World Cup. We are learning countries that are playing. There are four pools of countries. Ireland is in the fourth pool. We are against Romania, Canada, Italy and France. We hope that Ireland wins. 
Hello! My name is Bláithín. I am eleven years old. I am in Sixth Class in Cloontuskert N.S.
I love everything we do in school. My teacher’s name is Mrs. Gallagher. There are nine people in Sixth Class and six in Fifth Class. Fifth and Sixth Class are in the Senior Room. My favourite subjects are Art and P.E. We do sport and art and loads of different things in school. All our artwork and stories are displayed throughout the school. We have a library full of brilliant books. Our classroom is a brilliant learning environment. One of the things we do are computer classes on a Tuesday. We do these classes with a woman called Paula. She is very kind and helpful. We learn how to type properly and how to use computers properly. We learn how to put borders on our pages. We use “Mavis Beacon” to make learning to type fun. We do different activities based on the time of year e.g. We do Halloween stuff at Halloween. This course goes on for seven weeks and we benefit greatly from it. |
YOU'VE BEEN FRAMED!!!Hi. I’m Melanie. I am in fifth class. My teacher’s name is Mrs Gallagher. My favourite subject is Art. There are 15 in the whole classroom, 6 in fifth and 9 in sixth. I have lots of friends.
We do lots of subjects like Irish, English, Art, Maths and History. We go outside at break time. Our English and Irish stories are displayed in our classroom. We also made portraits of our friends. We glued on pieces of foam to make a decorative frame. Everyone had lots of fun making them and now they’re on display in our room. We also labelled this piece of art "You've been framed." |
We enjoyed playing with tangrams at maths time.
Fifth and Sixth class pupils are in our in our room.
Our teacher is Mrs Gallagher.
We do many activities and sports with our teacher.
We have a great selection of books in our library.
We have many facilities such as computers and an overhead projector.
Our room is very colourful with art and posters displayed everywhere.
Our class is great for letting us be who we want to be.
Our teacher is Mrs Gallagher.
We do many activities and sports with our teacher.
We have a great selection of books in our library.
We have many facilities such as computers and an overhead projector.
Our room is very colourful with art and posters displayed everywhere.
Our class is great for letting us be who we want to be.
Biodiversity Birds Poems by Rang a Cúig agus a Sé
The Music Man
James Donoghue came to the school to help us with the music for the Christmas concert. All the Children put in huge efforts into the show. Some of them gave up nearly all their break times to practice. Since Christmas they have continued to work hard at their music and we will have very exciting news about music in the school in the near future, so as they say, watch this space!
The Music Man
James Donoghue came to the school to help us with the music for the Christmas concert. All the Children put in huge efforts into the show. Some of them gave up nearly all their break times to practice. Since Christmas they have continued to work hard at their music and we will have very exciting news about music in the school in the near future, so as they say, watch this space!
Science Week
Big thank you to Mr O' Gorman and his team of scientists who organised a fun science day.
Big thank you to Mr O' Gorman and his team of scientists who organised a fun science day.
|
|
5th and 6th Classes are taking part in the Discovery Science and Maths programme this year. Their first experiments were with Magnets.
|
Italy Projects
Well done for all the great work that went into the Italy projects. Well done to everyone for the hard work they put in to these projects.
Maths in Action
5th and 6th class were busy working on length in the classroom and headed out to the yard to find the measurements around the school. Both classes worked very well together measuring with the trundle wheels, measuring tapes and metre sticks. Then 6th class moved on to drawing the school map to scale.
English Writing Project: Recipe Writing
Recently the Senior Room pupils were given the task of writing a recipe and creating a "Tangy Dessert". A huge effort went into writing the recipes and creating the dishes and it was very hard to decide who were the award winning chefs. Well done to everyone. The Cloontuskert NS Recipe Book is available for browsing on the Senior Room's library.
WINNERS OF THE RECIPE WRITING PROJECT.
Well done to all our winners who put in such great efforts at writing their recipes. If you'd like a look at all the work that was put in, the Cloontuskert N.S. Recipe Book can be seen in the Senior Room's library.
Well done to all our winners who put in such great efforts at writing their recipes. If you'd like a look at all the work that was put in, the Cloontuskert N.S. Recipe Book can be seen in the Senior Room's library.
Greenwave Project
Eason's Spelling Bee
Congratulations.
Rugby Training with Connacht Senior Rugby Team
Recently 5th & 6th Class children had a fantastic day out when they travelled to Creggs to train alongside the Connacht Senior Rugby Team. The children returned exhilarated, full of enthusiasm and were very grateful to Mr. O'Gorman for organising the event. They were presented with a signed rugby ball for the school.
See the gallery for photos from the day!
See the gallery for photos from the day!